4th Grade

Teacher: Mrs. Annette Larrabee

English Language Arts

Much of the focus in ElA this month will be on differentiating between poems, plays, and prose, identifying author's purpose, first and third person point-of-view from the narrator's perspective, and cause/effect. Significant time will also be spent on writing mechanics and parts of a sentence: subject, verb, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.

Mathematics

In this module, students build on their Grade 3 work with unit fractions as they explore fraction equivalence and extend this understanding to mixed numbers. This leads to the comparison of fractions and mixed numbers and the representation of both in a variety of models. Benchmark fractions play an important part in students’ ability to generalize and reason about relative fraction and mixed number sizes. Students then have the opportunity to apply what they know to be true for whole number operations to the new concepts of fraction and mixed number operations.

Engage New York

Religion

Third and Fourth Graders combine for Religion studies. As you will see in the photos below, the two groups work very closely together and cooperate as one class. This month, they will be studying the season of Easter, including the Ascension and Pentecost. They will also be learning the parts of the Mass

I am the one and only one,

What little can I do?

But if I get a friend to join,

Together we are two.

If each of us gets one more friend,

Together we are four,

And working side by side by side

We can do so much more.

So it goes, our numbers grow.

Our confidence grows too.

When we join to work together

There's nothing we can't do.